There are quite a number of things of interest in the current issue, No:19, of 1000 Words. Peggy Sue Amison‘s interview with Ken Schles about his Invisible City/Night Walk is certainly one, and certainly some will enjoy the rather curious work by Nobuyoshi Araki in his ‘Marvelous Tales of Black Ink‘, reviewed by Ivan Vartanian, though it and some of the other photography isn’t particularly to my taste.
There is also a review of a book that I’ve bought, Laura El-Tantawy‘s ‘In the Shadow of the Pyramids‘, an intensely personal view of Tahrir Square and the 18 days there in January and February 2011. It is an interesting book but perhaps one that is rather more personal than Gerry Badger’s review suggests. This isn’t as he says a photobook to do justice to ‘one of the most important manifestations of dissent within the Arab world, the ‘Tahir Square’ revolution‘ but a very personal document centred around this. It’s also a book where the design, sequence and layout play a vital point, something which is lost in the presentation here. It really needs a proper ‘book preview’ to do it justice rather than just a set of images.
But perhaps the most interesting article to me was an interview with Francis Hodgson, Photography Critic for the The Financial Times and much more, and in particular his discussion of how “we decide what is ‘good’ in photography“, or what matters, along with some interesting thoughts on photographic publishing.